Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-07-01 | Page 2 | Over 100 Killed by Earthquake

OVER 100 KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE Several Thousands Injured and Million and a Half Driven From Homes. FLORENCE. June 30. The victims of the earthquake so far reporied number num-ber more than a hundred killed and levers thousand injured. A million and a half of people of the provinces of Florence, Arezzo and Sienna, where the shocks were especially severe, npent th ntciht in the open air The prefect accompanied by enpi 1 neers, soldiers and Red Crops workers, proceeded through the zone with medical medi-cal and other supplies All the hospital.- here are filled with i wounded, and the work of rescue is go-inp go-inp ou under difficult conditions : The shocks began about 6 o'clock Sunday morning. They were very slight at first, but continued at Inter jvals until they reached their maximum maxi-mum intensity at Z o clock in the afternoon after-noon j This earthquake is tbe most severe tint Tuscany has suffered In the past t fifteen years. The full force of the ; disturbance was felt in the valley of the Mufrello, on the western slope of the central Apennines. Vlcchlo, a village vil-lage of 1200 inhabitants suffered most, ! most of the local doctors being among j the victims In Dorgo San Lorenzo. ;wlth a population of more than five t thousand, factories school bouses, churches and railwny stations were de-' de-' stroyed. ; Among the other towns which suffered suf-fered greatly were Marradl, San Piero, Sieve, Vaglia, Montorsoli, Dicpmano, Covella and Lubiano Much livestock was killed It is feared that some region might be entirely isolated through the destruction de-struction of communications and airplanes air-planes have been dispatches in all directions di-rections on scouting missions no